Friday, 18 April 2008

Middle-aged man shot by a teen boomhead who was blasting noise along with gunfire... Faits Divers is a French journalistic term for 'Human Interest' stories, a way to provide an encounter with the unexpected and extraordinary ruptures in the quotidian. The art world itself often gains coverage in the mainstream press under the rubrique of Fait Divers: a performance practice or an artist’s intervention similarly engages the directness, immediacy and 'realness' that defines the seduction of Fait Divers in popular media. According to Roland Barthes, it is its immanence which defines the Fait-Divers: 'disasters, murders, rapes, accidents, thefts, all this refers to man, to his history, his alienation, his hallucinations, his dreams, his fear.'Issue 17, with ideas, reactions, chronicles and (Old) News from all over the Art-World, an opinionated guide to artists-run spaces, interviews and projects, features breaking news and current affairs – faits divers for Faiths-Divers.

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HELLO: 220 daysYoann Gourmel and Elodie Royer with Adam Carr

Tony Conrad with Hans Ulrich Obrist

This One’s Optimistic Adam McEwen with Raina A. Lampkins-Fielder

Affecting AbstractionsFalke Pisano with Lillian Davies

Uncertain PilgrimGareth Moore with Andrew Bonacina

I’m Interested in Using the Image to Erase ItselfJesse Ash with David Lewis

Yes or No, Yes and NoTris Vonna-Michell with Adam Carr

A Multiple ‘I’Omer Fast with Joanna Fiduccia

A Presence You Can’t AvoidTania Bruguera with Francesco Stocchi

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General IdeaHans Ulrich Obrist with AA Bronson

Short Introduction to Old Newsby Jacob Fabricius

Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) 1970-1984by Tom Marioni

The Art Chronicles / Les Faits Diversby Marcel Janco

Scary Scenes (on the Side of Compassion)Angelo Di Marco with Clovis Goux

Observing the Observatoryby Rony Levy

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An Opinionated Guide to Commercialand Non-commercial Spaces Run by ArtistsCurated by Marcel Janco